Package org.geotools.gml Description

Reads
GML files and translates them into Java objects.

Note that the final OGC simple geometry types used by these classes are the
ones developed by Vivid Solutions as part of the Java Topology Suite.
However, this not the only type of Java object that may be generated by using
this suite of filters. For example, you could implement a
GMLGeometryHandler to create custom geometry types or to store OGC simple types
in your own custom format. The illustration shows how this works.

GMLDocumentFilter reads in an arbitrary XML file, extracts all GML-namespace
associate elements, and translates them into primitive geometry calls, handled
by the GMLGeometryHandler. Essentially, GMLDocumentFilter handles all
coordinate parsing so that handlers further down the chain never see any
character data within GML objects.

GMLGeometryFilter implements a GMLGeometryHandler and uses the
SubHandlers to create finished JTS-based geometries. This is the only
object that GMLGeometryFilter passes on down the chain from the GML namespace.
All other XML is passed through without modification.